Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-20

If, as some writer asserts, ''the mountains
have ever been the home of freedom" yet
the seaside has always been the nursery of
intellect. The great poets, artists, orators,
historians, statesmen and engineers of Eu-
rope and America have, with few exceptions,
been born and raised within sight and sound
of the sea. Those babies who shall have the
good luck to be born at Lucadia will, in the
next century, be famous for Lcucadia is to be
the home OF mauy artists and authors,
whose children, both with respect to their
parents and their birth place, will be ''born in
the purple"
You cannot overstate the advantages of
such a country-you cannot oyer-boom it.
Here it is 1t talks for itself with voices OF
health and of beauty; voices of healing and
of life; voices of vigorous ozone and entic-
ing balm voices of Christmas roses and of
Oleanders and lilies blooming in the jan
uary sunshine.
OF course it is new; of course it is a little
crude in some things; of course the Opera
houses are yet to be built, and the system of
sewage yet to be perfected, but if you are in
clined to complain of these things inst turn
to the telegraph column and read; ;"ChicagO,
November, 1SS7.-The thermometer at the
Signal Service office this morning registered
is approaching at the rate of 80 miles
hour" Then, again, we will have the
Opera Houses and mansions and drives very
soon, and we never will have the billiards
or the snow.
A blind man ought to be able to see that
the tide of growth here will be like that of
the Pontic sea, which "ne'er knows return
ing ebb." We have an exceedingly rich and
prosperous people-overy sixty millions
and wealth has accumulated since the war
even in greater ratio than the population.
Money is a drug at 4 per cent per annum.
There are more people in the United States
this day who are able to live upon their in
comes, than there are in Great Britain, Ger
many or Russia. These people have filled
Florida with costly mansions-habitable
only for three or four months in the year,
and they have lined the Atlantic sea-coast
with summer cities, where the hotels and
cottages are tenantless from October until
June. They are now coming here and
| III uNc years tltTc I'LL Dc nOuSSS luNllS tnt
sea, within stones throw of each other, all
the way from Santa Monica to San Diego
bay.
And of all these miles of coast no place
presents so many attractions as Leucadia.
The beach in front of it is better than at any
other point, for the water shoals very slowly
and the surf is very light, and for driving
purposes there is not such beach on the
coast 1t is a twenty-mile track in perfect
condition, swept and sprinkled and graded
by the tide twice each day, and the tide is
the best and most economical superintcnd-
| ent of roads in the country. An abundant
| supply of water for all purposes will be
piped along every avenue, and the little
city will, within season or two, be en-
| powered in foliage. Leucadia is about two
thirds of the way to San Diego by the new
road OF the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company, and will com mand the
trade of the rich valleys adjacent.
There is only one other such place as Leu
cadia in the world. 1t is little city on the
Mediterranean, at the foot of the Alps, called
| MentOne. Sam Cox immortalized the spot
in his "Search for Winter Sunbeams"; and
at Mentone the conditions are not as perfect
| as at Leucadia, for once in while the
'mistrael sweeps down on Mentone, and
| the landlords Golfers are depleted by the
cost of providing fire for the other "cough
ers." "a horrible pun, but all tastes must
| be copsulted.)
Lots in Mentone, SO feet front, sell for So,
600 francs Lots in Leucadia ought to sell al
| the auction, October 18th, 1887, for $4,000
each, but the chances are they will go at a
| less figure.
If you want home, secure one at Leuca
dia You will never be able to do better. If
you want to invest and earn three or four
hundred per cent. advance, here is your
chance, for there are plenty rich asthmatics
consumptives and bronchiters and blizzard
haters who will want Leucadia lots by and
by, and who will pay any price asked for
| them; and Nature has limited the supply OF
| such combinations of sea and shore, and
soil, and sky, and climate, and their manu-
| facture is not progressing fast enough to
| make 1t likely that the market will be over
| stocked during this century. 1t takes al
least one cataclysm to lay the foundations OF
forty thousand years to bleach the mineral
salts out OF the soil SO as to make it fit fol
\ orange trees.
We want those enterprising people who
are here now to get the advantage of present
prices. We are willing that those who
come next year shall pay two or three hun
| dred per cent. advance; and they will have
to pay it whether we are willing or not
You think this is boom, do you? Well, it is
hardly the beginning of a boom. People will
pour in here during the coming year by the
thousands and tens of thousands. They will
overrun shore and valley and mountain
side. All such town lots as those at Leuca-
dia will be snatched up quickly Be wise in
time and secure some OF them while they
can be bought for hundreds. After while
they will sell for thousands.